Friday, April 19, 2013

PIB Press Release on Dearness Allowance : Release of additional instalment of DA to CG Staff and DR to CG Pensioners, due from 1.1.2013

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

18-April-2013 20:45 IST

Release of additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to central government employees and Dearness Relief to pensioners, due from 1.1.2013

The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to central government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from 01.01.2013 at the rate of 8 percent over the existing rate of 72 percent.

Thus, the combined impact on the exchequer on account of both DA and DR would be of the order of Rs.8629.20 crore per annum and Rs. 10067.36 crore in the financial year 2013-14 (that is for a period of 14 months from January, 2013 to February, 2014).

1 comments:

Anonymous
said...

hi any one knows about before 2004 appointments will change over to CPF to GFP pension scheme because our organization have not given Option to change CPf to GPF. we hardly few left out, we are the loser in the benefits from GPF

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